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Railway stations on terrorist alert.
On Jan 7, 4:36*pm, wrote:
On Fri, 7 Jan 2011 07:23:36 -0800 (PST) bob wrote: I don't dispute that mistakes happen, but that is exactly my concern: another mistake might happen. *The OP asked, "If a uniformed presence discourage one islamist from killing one person is that not worth the effort?" *I would have to say no. *I do not believe the risk of another terrible mistake is worth taking for the hope that lots of uniforms and guns at railway stations might perhaps deter a bad person from doing a bad thing. If its a choice of one civilian dying because of a mistake or dozens dying because of a bomb the choice is a no brainer. Anyway , I don't see what your problem is - almost every other country in the world has armed police as the norm, even fluffy liberal sweden. But the specific question posed by the OP was about *one* person being saved. I can't help but feel that we would be more likely to save *one* person if we used the money being spent on this particular counter terrorism measure on some sort of road safety project (anybody have the current DfT figure for cost per life saved used in evaluating road safety projects to hand?). While there are plenty of armed police in many countries, because police being armed in the UK is not normal, the perception when there are armed police about in the UK is that they are more likely than your average Swedish beat bobby to use those arms. Given that the presence is abnormal, the police command structure is likely to be under abnormal load, conditions which would make mistakes far more likely. Robin |
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